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Man in turban sits thoughtfully in a study with a skull, open book, globe and scattered papers by a window.

A Scholar in his Study

Justus Juncker, 1754

Baroque oil sketch of mythological figures, cherubs and clouds in a pale blue sky, with a trident-bearing god and sea creatur

The Four Elements, Preparatory Study for a Painted Ceiling (Allegory of Time?)

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1750

Black chalk portrait drawing of a woman with curled hair, pearl necklace and drop earring, turned three-quarter view.

Porträt der Maddalena Corvina

Claude Mellan, 1636

Pencil sketch of a robed preacher addressing a crowd in a columned interior, with kneeling and reclining figures in the foreg

The Sermon of Saint Paul in Ephesus

Eustache Le Sueur, 1649

Red chalk drawing of a young woman with bowed head holding a fur muff, by Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, 1770.

Half-Length Figure of a Young Woman with a Muff

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1770

Brown wash drawing of a woman and attendant beside a cradle hanging from a tree, with a cottage and cat in a rural setting.

The cradle

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1769

Pencil sketch of Christ with Mary and Martha in an arched interior, with grid lines and a standing woman at right.

Christ with Mary and Martha

Eustache Le Sueur, 1650

Crayon portrait of a heavyset man with tousled hair and a tied cravat, turned to the right against a hatched background.

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste de Boissieu with a Necktie

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1781

Pen and watercolor drawing of a black knight, archers, a hunter with game, and masked figures in medieval costume.

A black knight, archers, a hunter and mask wearers

Ferdinand Ferdinand Fellner Fellner

Brown wash drawing of a snowy village with thatched cottages, bare windswept trees, figures on a road and birds in the sky.

Village in the winter

Egbert van Drielst

Grey wash drawing of a river waterfall with cliffs, poplars, and two painters at easels with spectators in the foreground.

River landscape with high mountains, in the foreground two painters with spectators

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1788

Pencil drawing of a young man in a wide-brimmed hat and lace collar, turned to the right, with curly shoulder-length hair.

Young man with hat to the right

Etienne Étienne Fessard Fessard

Red chalk drawing of a man with long wavy hair, mustache and beard, seen from the shoulders up.

Portrait of the Duc Louis-Emmanuel de Valois

Robert Nanteuil

Grey wash drawing of a sunlit tree trunk and foliage with shaded forest undergrowth behind it.

Study of Trees

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1779

Grey wash drawing of three women in flowing robes and headscarves, seated and reclining under a canopy.

Encamped Oriental women

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, 1767

Pencil sketch of a two-horse cart carrying a large barrel down a road, with a driver, a dog, and hills beyond.

Two-horse carriage, transporting a barrel, drives down a slope

Brown wash drawing of a dim mill interior with a millstone, stone steps, a grain sack and an open window.

Interior of a Mill

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Pencil drawing of a monastery on a wooded lakeside island with mountains behind and rocks and a boat in the foreground.

The Herreninsel with the monastery in the Chiemsee

Heinrich Funk, 1842

Portrait of a peasant woman with wool cap in profile to the right

Grey wash drawing of a ruined stone building beside a lake, with a mountain and rolling hills behind it.

Vestiges of the temple of Apollo on the edge of the Lake of Auvergne

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1766

Pencil sketch of the twin-towered collegiate church of St. Castor in Karden with a half-timbered house and distant hills.

The collegiate church of St. Castor in Karden

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1861

Pencil drawing of an Italian hill town with a stone house, stairs, and a mule caravan with travelers on a path.

Italian mountain town

Grey wash drawing of a stone house, ruined tower and rocky cliff, with small figures and a dog by water at right.

Ruins in Dargoire

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Pencil sketch of carved scrollwork frieze with vase motifs and a geometric lattice detail, from choir stall studies.

Details on the choir stalls in Sankt Martin in Lorch

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1862

Pencil portrait of a man with curly shoulder-length hair, moustache and a crown with pointed fleurons.

Portrait of Gaston d'Orléans with crown

Robert Nanteuil

Grey wash drawing of an old bearded man with a walking stick, looking down while counting money in a fur muff.

Old beggar with muff, counting money

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1780

Pencil sketch of a steep-roofed mill house behind dense shrubs, with a thatched outbuilding to the right.

The Obermühle in Braunfels

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1862

Pencil portrait of a man with long curled hair, moustache and lace collar, shown head and shoulders in three-quarter view.

Portrait of Louis XIII, King of France

Robert Nanteuil

Pencil sketch of a bearded elderly hermit in a long robe, reading a book and holding a staff.

Hermit

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Pencil sketch of layered wooded hills and a valley, dated 29 August 1862, by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein.

The Rehbachswiese at Lahnkopf

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, 1862

Pencil drawing of a young child's head and shoulders, with curly hair and a direct gaze.

Portrait of a child

Robert Nanteuil

Grey wash drawing of a hillside village with a chapel, stone houses, bare trees and a rocky path in the foreground.

Landscape with a Chapel and Houses on a Mountainside

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Red chalk drawing of a muscular man carrying a struggling woman over his shoulder, with swirling drapery.

Two figures from the Rape of the Sabine women

Nicolas Poussin

Brown wash drawing of a forest path with two armored warriors, a woman in a white robe, and a distant valley.

Heroic landscape with the death of Opheltes during the march of the Seven against Thebes

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1798

Ink and wash drawing of a ruined archway, stone house and overgrown walls on a hillside, by Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, 1795.

Landscape near Dargoire

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1795

Red chalk sketch of two men in period dress with walking staves and a standing woman in a long gown.

Two Pilgrims and a Standing Woman in Profile

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1709

Pen and brown wash drawing of a crowd worshipping at a fiery altar beneath a large tree, with a wide landscape beyond.

The Adoration of the Golden Calf

Claude Lorrain, 1653

Watercolor river landscape with a château on a hill, oxen and herders in the foreground, and poplars by the water.

River Landscape

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Pencil and wash study of tall plants, broad leaves and low foliage on pale paper, attributed to Watteau.

Plants

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1709

Pen and brown ink sketch of two winged figures in a stone architectural setting, one in flowing drapery.

Clio and Pheme

Nicolas Poussin, 1650

Grey wash drawing of houses on steep rocky cliffs with trees and a domed building in the hazy distance.

Houses on high rocks

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Pastel drawing of a young woman's head turned right, with braided hair, a blue ribbon and pearls, on grey paper.

Woman's head turned to the right

François Boucher

Watercolor and pen drawing of a Neapolitan cathedral interior with clergy at an altar and a kneeling crowd in the foreground.

The Blood Miracle of Saint Januarius in the Cathedral of Naples

Louis Jean Desprez, 1780

Pen and brown wash sketch of three male figures in caps, one leaning on a draped table and two standing at right.

Three farmers

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Oval watercolor of a park with tall trees, a stone staircase leading up toward a fountain, and small figures on the path.

Park landscape with tall trees and the view of a staircase in the mid-ground

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1780

Brown wash drawing of three men in an Egyptian tomb firing a pistol near two nude corpses and sarcophagi.

The poet Aaron Hill and three other Egypt travelers find two corpses in a tomb chamber

Augustin Félix Fortin, 1790

Chalk drawing of a smiling elderly bearded man with long hair, glancing to the side, in red and black tones.

Head of a laughing old man

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Watercolor landscape of thatched cottages beside a large tree, a dirt road with small figures, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a ruined farmstead

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1790

Pencil portrait drawing of an elderly man with spectacles, wavy hair, and a serious expression, wearing a buttoned coat.

Half-Length Portrait of an Old Man

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

A hunter and a fisherman

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Black chalk drawing of a soldier in a plumed shako handing a letter to a seated woman in a bonnet.

A soldier brings a letter to a woman

Pierre-Alexandre Wille, 1779

Ink and wash drawing of a group of figures, two men bending over a draped form with a child at left and a faint sketched figu

Figure group with two men trying to tie the hooves of a dead hind lying on the ground

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Brown wash drawing of an elderly man in a cap grinding with a pestle in a mortar at a table with a jug.

Man with mortar in a pharmacy

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Brown ink drawing of the Virgin Mary ascending among angels above apostles gathered around an open tomb.

Assumption of Mary

Jacques Callot, 1631

Brown wash drawing of robed philosophers and a woman conversing near an obelisk, globe and scrolls in a classical courtyard.

Aspasia in conversation with philosophers

Michel Corneille the Younger

Pen and brown ink drawing with wash of a seated older woman in a headscarf, with sketched figure fragments at the edges.

Sitting old woman

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Red chalk drawing of soldiers playing cards around a table in a stone ruin, with a standing onlooker and a helmet on the grou

Soldiers Playing Cards in a Ruin

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1710

Red and black chalk study of a woman in a feathered hat turning over her shoulder, with a cloak and raised hand.

Study of a woman turning around

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Two heads of old men, en face and in profile to the left

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Red chalk drawing of a seated young man in a tricorn hat playing violin, with a reclining figure in the foreground.

Violinist

François Boucher, 1736

Red and black chalk drawing of two heads and three hand studies on a grey-brown ground.

Head of a flutist, head of a young man with a flat beret, three hands, holding two drawing pens and a compass

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Grey ink drawing of a rocky cliff with a stone tower, small chapel, trees, and a wooden fence in the foreground.

Château Galliard (Les Andelys?)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1796

Grey chalk drawing of a river landscape with tall trees, a calm pond, and a small figure with a dog at right.

River landscape

François Boucher, 1735

Pencil sketch of Adam and Eve discovering Abel's body on the ground, with a dog and smoking ruins behind them.

Adam and Eve find the body of Abel

Carl Joseph Begas

Watercolor landscape of peasants in a horse-drawn cart fording a river below rocky banks and wooded hills.

A Group of Peasants Crossing a Ford with a Horse-Drawn [Cart] Wagon

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1793

A beggar, holding his hat in his hand, in profile to the left

Chalk drawing of an older bearded man with a white collar and dark coat draped over one shoulder, gazing forward.

Bust of an older man with a blond beard, his coat thrown over his shoulder

Daniel Dumonstier

The same old man, once with glasses, in profile to the left

Jean Jacques de Boissieu

Pen drawing of couples dancing in a tiled hall while a woman plays piano and musicians play in a gallery above.

Gentlemen and ladies dancing, a lady plays piano and is accompanied by an orchestra

Red chalk drawing of two washerwomen kneeling over laundry, one holding up a cloth beside a wicker basket.

Two washerwomen

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Watercolor of an arched stone bridge over a river, with boats, townhouses, carriages and figures on the banks.

View of the bridge of La Guillotière in Lyon

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, 1760

Brown ink drawing of the infant Moses in a basket by a river, with a kneeling woman, reclining river god and hilltop city.

The Exposure of Moses on the Nile

Francisque Francisque Millet Millet

A young clergyman in profile to the left, reading in a book

Étienne Théolon

Pencil sketch of a helmeted lancer on horseback with a long lance speaking to a hatted man standing on open ground.

A lancer from the Thirty Years' War speaks with an officer on foot

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a rider on a dark horse with a mule driver and cart on a road beneath blue mountains.

Peasant on horseback and mule driver from the Roman Campagna

Johann Adam Klein

Red and black chalk drawing of a muscular male torso seen from behind, with hatched shading on toned paper.

Rear view of a male torso (Torso from the Belvedere)

Nicolas Lancret

Grey wash drawing of two mounted lancers with pennant lances seen from behind, with a smoky landscape and distant riders.

Grand Ducal Berg Troops, Patrol of Lancers

Carl Wilhelm von Heideck, 1811

Red chalk sketch of two nude running figures in dynamic poses, study titled Hippomenes and Atalanta by Nicolas Poussin.

Hippomenes and Atalanta

Nicolas Poussin

Black and white chalk drawing of a man crouching on all fours on grey paper, head turned, draped garment.

Man crouching on the ground on all fours (boy playing with chicks)

Nicolas Lancret, 1730

Oval watercolor of a park with tall trees, a stone ramp, small figures and statues receding into dense woodland.

Park Landscape with Tall Trees and Stone Ramp in Mid-Field

Louis Gabriel Moreau, 1780

Brown wash drawing of children playing leapfrog beneath a tree, with seated children watching on a grassy bank.

Children Playing Leapfrog

Nicolas Poussin

Red chalk drawing of a standing man in a draped cloak, with a sketched head and hand in blue chalk beside him.

Standing Male Figure (Nicolas Vleughels?)

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718

Grey-washed drawing of cascading waterfalls down a rocky hillside with trees and a stream in the foreground.

The waterfall of Tivoli

Red chalk drawing of a man's head in a plumed hat, with studies of two hands below on grey paper.

Head and two hands

Nicolas Lancret

Young woman sitting on the ground in profile to the left

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Red chalk drawing of a young man's head turned right, gazing upward, with curly hair and white highlights.

Head of a young man to the right

Red chalk drawing of a young woman's head in a white cap and shawl, turned to the side, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

Girl's head with a cap

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1763

Red chalk drawing of a standing woman seen from behind, head turned left, in a loose draped gown.

Lady in rear view, her head turned in lost profile to the left

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1715

Pen and wash drawing of a cathedral and palace courtyard with towers, carriages, riders and pedestrians.

Cathedral and Episcopal Palace in Speyer before the destruction in 1689

Israël Silvestre, 1665

Grey wash drawing of an armored knight grabbing a monk's beard beside a horse, with a woman and a large tree.

Does he grab him by the chin with wild hate / And tear out of his beard what he can grasp (Rodomont and the Monk)

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1773

Red and black chalk drawing of a woman's head with a ruffled collar and hair ribbon, with a sketched hand at left.

A lady's head and a hand

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Pen and wash drawing of a crowded ceremonial procession past an obelisk and colonnaded classical buildings.

The Entry of Alexander into Babylon

Sébastien Leclerc, 1704

Woman's head with tied-up hair in profile to the right

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1780

Red chalk sketch of two standing women seen from behind, a seated woman in drapery, and a hand study.

Two standing ladies in rear view, one hand and a sitting lady

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1715

Pen and wash drawing of a dying old man on a bed with a haloed figure pointing upward, angels above, and mourners around.

The Death of Saint Joseph

Michel Corneille the Younger

Red chalk drawing of robed apostles on a rocky hill under a tree, with a kneeling crowd gathered in the foreground.

Appointing of the apostles

François François-Alexandre Verdier Verdier